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With the Pokemon 30th Celebration Classic Collection, thought I’d make some changes and push a new E-Reader centering mode to IsMyCardCentered!

From what I’ve been able to find, the commonly accepted method is that PSA evaluates these asymmetrical E-Reader layouts by comparing Left/Bottom and Top/Right, rather than the normal Left/Right and Top/Bottom borders. PSA doesn’t appear to officially document this method anywhere though, so I definitely wouldn’t call it an official PSA formula so please take with a grain of salt.

The tool now lets you switch between Standard and E-Reader layouts, along with Portrait/Landscape orientation, and the guides/readout update to match the correct edge pairings.

Figured it was worth adding with more people digging through E-Readers again 🙌

Just noticed some new progression labels! Got excited and thought my order was moving on when I saw "Encapsulation" but it's basically the same as Assembly

Same-same, but different 😂

Finally got my site set up with JourneyMV yesterday and the money is rolling in! Almost can afford from the dollar menu 😂

My site is niche (tooling site) but it does have decent traffic. I started in February this year and didn't apply until May. Each time was always due to low value content. I tried adding different pages each time around but was always denied. Wish there was some sort of better explanation than the generic help links. Fwiw ~80% traffic was majority from US with the last ~20% or so coming from other countries

Googled around for adsense alternatives and came across Journey By Mediavine and applied there and was approved as soon as my application submitted? I'm in the process of updating my site to fit Journey now

Anyone else have difficulty getting approved by Adsense but no problem with other platforms?

First, thanks again to everyone who has supported my free photo-based centering tool so far

I noticed some collectors use rulers, calipers, etc. to manually measure card borders, so I built a free manual centering calculator here. You can enter the measurements for top, bottom, left, and right borders in any consistent unit. It converts your entered measurements into centering percentages with a simple visual border preview

This is meant to be a quick sanity check before grading or buying, especially if you already have your own measurements and don’t want to rely on my photo-based tool. Feedback is welcome if there’s anything that would make it more useful

Couple months ago I made a free PSA Pop Report finder app since PSA's site was basically not the easiest to navigate. So I built my own utilizing PSA’s data and originally it only included Pokemon. I've had a few suggestions for other TCG's and ....

Now it includes One Piece in English and Japanese!

IsMyCardCentered.com/gem-finder

Reason for this site is to easily look up the card you need data on and find out its pop report much easier and much, much faster. The gem rate + total amount graded is immediately available on every card to hopefully shine some light on grading opportunities! One Piece will now be included in my monthly refreshes going forward

Let me know if there's anything else useful I can add, cheers!

Used IsMyCardCentered.com/card-review/ to help review a couple grades

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I did the initial photos and measured centering and hand inspected each. Then went through the app and gave my observations to see what the models would say

The ones marked as 10, easy decision and included it in the batch to send in. I also confirmed no issues on centering, corners, edges and surface so the 10 made sense

The ones marked as potential 9-10, I felt confident enough to send in the ones where I felt the issue was small enough to still qualify for a PSA 10 (1 corner whitening, print void, borderline centering, etc).

The ones marked as 9, I'm 100% expecting a 9 on Ditto Squirtle. For Celebi, I'm expecting an 8. However Squirtle #148, there is two small print voids on the back. It's a gamble to see if PSA will dock it or not -- I've heard it both ways so we'll see on this card

I submitted "bigger" cards directly to PSA myself, then submitted the smaller cards with GameStop since it's relatively cheaper ($33 vs $25)

Posting this to hold the app I built accountable 😮‍💨